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| Mint Condition Giving mint a proper home. |
As a fastidious gardener, I have always snubbed invasive plants like mint. Never giving them the bed space equivalent of the time-of-day. Letting plants run amuck; here, there and everywhere? I don’t think so, not in my garden! For years, I’ve been keeping my mint sequestered to pots and a lot like kids, they don’t always follow the rules anyway.
That was, until I saw an unconditional mint patch. Mint allowed to stretch out into the soil and be BOLD. Not recognizing it at first, because it did not look anything like my quasi-rule-following mint, I had to taste it to confirm. YES! Tall. Dark. And, LOVELY.
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| An uninhabitable spot and a plant that you just can’t seem to kill, soul mates. |
After that encounter, with mint on my mind and a mojito in hand I set out to find the perfect place for mint in my yard. I didn’t have to look far. One step out our back door and I saw it; under our fountain, where I’ve killed a lineage of well deserving other plants-PERFCT!
Conditions:
Full sun, excessive heat, wet soil from filling the fountain and wet foliage from the constant splashing of water, completely enclosed by our limestone patio (offering some boundaries to obey) and right outside our kitchen door (very convenient for future mojitos!).
An uninhabitable spot
and a plant that you just can’t seem to kill,
soul mates.
From our garden to yours,
Cheers!
UrbanChiqueNess
Too funny…mint is so invasive but I can’t live without it so I keep it in a secluded spot too. I don’t even need rum, I do the mojito mocktail with just lime and mint with sparkling water from my SodaStrea…which BTW is a must for fizzy water! xo
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